For years, Edna Karr High has hunkered down in a former middle-school campus on a side street in Algiers. But a few years from now, the B-graded school -- the most popular choice for parents in OneApp this year -- could inhabit a new, $31 million campus on the former site of Jo Ellen Smith Hospital.

Orleans Parish School Board representatives and construction managers Jacobs/CSRS will provide updates on the design Monday. "We look forward to serving the community well," Principal John Hiser said.

Construction on the new Karr is projected to be complete in December 2016. Trapolin Peer Architects is designing the project.

The new Karr is part of a massive $1.8 billion overhaul of New Orleans' public school campuses. Officials promise that all students will be in a new or cleaned-up school by 2017.